Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-12-01
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And many more efforts at twining red
hair into scorching jokes had come tc
her knowledge; but as the years ripen.
ed and her freckles grew apace as the
color of her hirsute covering deepened
AS the luscious juiciness of round and
glorious won'anhood became more and
more apparent to the naked eye. Mamie
Navarro had learned to ignore all red
headed jakas. and to take greater and
deeper pride in the roseate splendor OF
her hair
Once red hair came very near to being
the fashion. That was when the Titan
esque brand was in large demand
among cigarette package decorators
Mamie was ecstatic. The world was on
the brink of a revolution. If the revo-
luton came her way. then she could
snap her fingers at the blondes and
hrunes and hrunettes, and shake her
CORY locks in their direction until they
were heartsick and desperate with envy.
You can paint the front walk red, and
you can throw wild Indian hue around
a show case or a store front. but you
cannot dye hair red. and there Mamie
had her towheaded and jet locked si--
ters by the back of the neck. metaphor
ically. But the revolution did not come
Nannie's way. It cut across lot and
shot mp an alley, and the brown nutted
girls became the rage.
Fate is hard upon the red headed
brigade. Statistics show that there is
something in the fragrant tint of their
capillary crops which keeps so per cent.
of them in constant hard luck Men
with wide eyebrows and prominent sites
on their skulltops for the erection of
large warehouses of common sense re-
fuse absolutely to have anything to do
with red headed girls, and will not mar
" them because they look upon their
flaming topknots as unmistakable bea-
cons warning the voyager from the dan
gerous shores of a red hot temper
Fiery hair has come to be accepted the
world over as an indication of fiery
temper. And some authorities say that
red headed woman can get mad enough
in minute to crush her teeth through
cold pig iron.
I mention these things Just to show
how much hard luck a red haired per
son has to buck against And Mamie
Navarro was no exception.
She was engaged to Redmund Rose.
He had pale hair, but was q nice young
man, who knew enough to refrain from
wearing red neckties or parLaking of
any beverage that might induce & red
nose, and he did this purely ont of re-
spect for the color of Nannie's hair
Redmund was as handsome and desira-
BILE a blonde as any woman could wish
OF win, aud he would give the last cent
of his salary to glorify his Nannie's
fiery coiffuro. He was perfectly gone
on it. That flaming bunch of berry rel
bang filed his eye with joy and his
heart with delight He wouldn't give a
strand Of that notorious red hair for the
same thickness of bank bills. And Is
Mamie held him in quite as high es-
TEEN as he held her and her rod hair.
what wonder was there that they have
agreed to float down the stream of time
together and to begin floating on Sep
tennber % of the present yearw
With this perfect understanding be
tween the two persons most concerned
in this matter. my story begins. 1t be-
gins on September Ii. nine davs before
the date Of the wedding. And here. too.
begins Mamie Navarre's toughest streak
Of hard luck. On tho 14th she went
down town to hny soma presents which
she wanted to mako 10 herself on her
wedding day-presents to which she
would attach cards Indicating that her
brother, her mother and her father had
sent the offerings-and az she passed a
conspicuous corner she saw some men
rush from barber shop aud exclaim-
as they pointed to her:
''Thrre goes one, nowI Where's your
white horseF
BY golly, there he comesr' and the
crowd looked mp the street, laughed.
seemed satisfied and retired again into
the shop.
At another point she was gliding by
a drug store when three men left the
soda fountain in response to O. shout
from cane twirler on the pavement.
"Hello boys, here's ared headed Grill
but | don't see any white horse"
There comes white mule" said one
of the soda slipping trio, as his delicate
bamboo stick was tnrned toward horse
car team that just then logged intosigh
from the shade of corner building.
Everywhere down town Mamie heard
nothing but similar expressions. Every
body seemed to be on the lookout. first
for a red headed girl and then for a
white horse. ''Here she goes" rang in
her ears until her tympanum was sore
from the vibrations.
Mortified and miserable, she started for